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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: floppy: take over maintainership
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Date:   Wed, 31 Jul 2019 08:53:22 -0600
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On 7/31/19 8:47 AM, Denis Efremov wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> On 18.07.2019 01:03, Jiri Kosina wrote:
>> On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>
>>> I don't think we really have a floppy maintainer any more,
>>
>> Yeah, I basically volunteered myself to maintain it quite some time
>> ago back when I fixed the concurrency issues which exhibited itself
>> only with VM-emulated devices, and at the same time I still had the
>> physical 3.5" reader.
>>
>> The hardware doesn't work any more though. So I guess I should just
>> remove myself as a maintainer to reflect the reality and mark floppy.c
>> as Orphaned.
> 
> Well, without jokes about Thunderdome, I've got time, hardware and
> would like to maintain the floppy. Except the for recent fixes,
> I described floppy ioctls in syzkaller. I've already spent quite
> a lot of time with this code. Thus, if nobody minds

Great, can't see anyone objecting to doling out some floppy love.
Applied, thanks.

-- 
Jens Axboe